{"id":550102,"date":"2026-03-28T08:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550102\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:49:17","slug":"six-barcelona-players-feature-as-spain-dominate-friendly-against-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550102\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Barcelona players feature as Spain dominate friendly against Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Due to the unfortunate cancellation of the 2026 Finalissima against Argentina, Spain played a friendly against Serbia at La Cer\u00e1mica, the home of Villarreal, and won 3-0 in dominant fashion with six Barcelona stars playing a part on the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Luis de la Fuente started Pau Cubars\u00ed, Pedri, Lamine Yamal and Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez and brought Ferran Torres and Dani Olmo off the bench in the second half, and all six Blaugrana players had a pretty good night. Cubars\u00ed, Ferm\u00edn and Ferran each recorded an assist as Mikel Oyarzabal scored twice and V\u00edctor Mu\u00f1oz found the net in the final period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The best piece of news from a Bar\u00e7a perspective was that De La Fuente didn\u2019t overextend his players: Pedri and Ferm\u00edn both came off at halftime, Yamal played only an hour, and only Cubars\u00ed went close to the distance as he was substituted with 10 minutes to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Spain could have easily scored five or six on the night and Olmo missed two big chances in the second half, and La Roja put on another excellent show to send the home crowd happy. Their next friendly is against Egypt at Cornell\u00e1 on Tuesday, and goalkeeper Joan Garcia will be hoping to make the squad for that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Due to the unfortunate cancellation of the 2026 Finalissima against Argentina, Spain played a friendly against Serbia at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[125386,403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-550102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona-internationals","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}